公开(公告)号：US07256401B2

公开(公告)日：2007-08-14

申请号：US10898695

申请日：2004-07-23

申请人： William R. Garmer ,  Jonathan M. Luck

发明人： William R. Garmer ,  Jonathan M. Luck

IPC分类号： G01J5/02

CPC分类号： G08B17/005 ,  A62C3/0271 ,  A62C37/40 ,  G01J1/02 ,  G01J1/0219 ,  G01J1/0228 ,  G01J1/0266 ,  G01J1/0271 ,  G01J1/04 ,  G01J1/0414 ,  G01J1/0448 ,  G01J1/0488 ,  G01J1/18 ,  G08B17/12 ,  G08B25/10

摘要： A system and method for detecting radiation indicative of fire, such as forest fire. In one embodiment, a threshold energy level is determined based on ambient sensor conditions. A sensor unit may be setup to scan a predetermined area for electromagnetic radiation. Any detected electromagnetic radiation may then be band pass filtered to a wavelength range centered about a predetermined frequency associated with the presence of fire. The resulting energy level signal may then be further filter to pass only those signals which exhibit a “flicker” frequency. If the resulting filtered signal exceeds the threshold signal, a fire notification signal may then be generated.

摘要翻译： 用于检测指示火灾的辐射的系统和方法，例如森林火灾。 在一个实施例中，基于环境传感器条件来确定阈值能级。 可以设置传感器单元以扫描预定区域以进行电磁辐射。 然后，任何检测到的电磁辐射可以被带通滤波成以与火的存在相关联的预定频率为中心的波长范围。 所得到的能级信号然后可以进一步过滤，以仅通过那些呈现“闪烁”频率的信号。 如果所得到的滤波信号超过阈值信号，则可以产生火情通知信号。

公开(公告)号：US5229649A

公开(公告)日：1993-07-20

申请号：US253858

申请日：1988-10-04

申请人： Wyn. Y. Nielsen ,  Jonathan M. Luck

发明人： Wyn. Y. Nielsen ,  Jonathan M. Luck

IPC分类号： A01G25/16 ,  G06F3/023 ,  G06F3/048 ,  H02J1/00 ,  H02J7/35 ,  H04Q9/00

CPC分类号： H02J7/35 ,  A01G25/16 ,  G06F3/0489 ,  Y02P60/122 ,  Y10T307/406 ,  Y10T307/625

摘要： An irrigation controller is powered for all normal operations by light incident upon an 18 square inch photovoltaic module. Electrical power from the photovoltaic module is stored in high performance "super" capacitors. A transportable battery power source is connected to the controller to power its communication, such as for manual exercise and/or the loading of irrigation control programs. The external battery power source leaves the capacitor power storage recharged at the conclusion of each communication episode. The irrigation controller electronics, save for a real time clock that is updated, are not provided with a timing signal, and thereby consume almost no energy, save for brief millisecond sporadic time intervals of scheduled irrigation control. Capacitor power storage is approximately 6.5 mWH. Worse case photovoltaic energy production is 7.6 mWH daily. The sporadically operative irrigation controller uses less than 6.4 mWH per day, with remaining energy expended on up to 128 ultra-low-power valve actuations per day.

摘要翻译： 灌溉控制器通过入射到18平方英寸光伏模块上的光进行所有正常操作。 来自光伏模块的电力被存储在高性能“超级”电容器中。 可移动电池电源连接到控制器以为其通信提供动力，例如用于手动锻炼和/或加载灌溉控制程序。 外部电池电源离开电容器电源存储在每个通信事件结束时重新充电。 除了更新的实时时钟之外，灌溉控制器电子设备没有提供定时信号，从而几乎不消耗能量，节省了计划灌溉控制的短暂的零星时间间隔。 电容器蓄电量约为6.5 mWH。 更糟糕的是，光伏能源生产每天为7.6 mWH。 每天偶发的灌溉控制器使用的功率小于6.4 mWH，剩下的能量每天可以达128次超低功率的阀门启动。

公开(公告)号：US07154095B2

公开(公告)日：2006-12-26

申请号：US10492155

申请日：2002-10-10

申请人： Jonathan M. Luck ,  Stuart Waddell ,  Howard Coven

发明人： Jonathan M. Luck ,  Stuart Waddell ,  Howard Coven

IPC分类号： G01J5/00

CPC分类号： G08B17/005 ,  A62C3/0271 ,  A62C37/40 ,  G08B17/12 ,  G08B25/10

摘要： A radiation sensitive sensor (1) which detects electromagnetic radiation within a narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum using a single, fixed infrared detector (12) to cover a 360° area in a plurality of segmented sectors obtained by rotation of a mirror (19) for each of the sectors with detection of the radiation from each sector providing an indication of the presence of a physical phenomena (50) such as a forest fire. The use of a single fixed detector and the mirror rotation allows for a solar powered unit which is able to be employed either singularly or in a system of grid locations to cover a wide sensor area in order to provide continuous operation and reliable alarm indications.

摘要翻译： 一种辐射敏感传感器（1），其使用单个固定红外检测器（12）来检测电磁频谱的窄带内的电磁辐射，以覆盖通过反射镜（19）旋转获得的多个分段扇区中的360°区域， 检测每个扇区的辐射的每个部门提供诸如森林火灾的物理现象（50）的存在的指示。 使用单个固定检测器和反射镜旋转允许太阳能供电单元，其能够单独使用或在网格位置的系统中覆盖宽的传感器区域，以便提供连续的操作和可靠的报警指示。

公开(公告)号：US5661349A

公开(公告)日：1997-08-26

申请号：US94687

申请日：1993-07-19

申请人： Jonathan M. Luck

发明人： Jonathan M. Luck

IPC分类号： A01G25/16 ,  H02J7/35 ,  H01H47/32

CPC分类号： A01G25/16 ,  H02J7/35 ,  Y02P60/122 ,  Y10T307/625 ,  Y10T307/858

摘要： An electronic device, for example an irrigation controller, accumulates energy from a source of energy, for example from incident light, in order to progress, over time, from an inoperative un-powered to an operative powered condition in a positively controlled, graceful and orderly manner. The device so progresses to operability regardless that it should, from time to time and at times, be totally devoid of energy, and regardless that it may accrue energy only but exceedingly slowly over periods of days, weeks and longer. A power monitor circuit of the device is made from an electrical circuit technology that is reliably operative at a relatively low voltage level, typically from BICMOS technology, whereas other device electrical circuits are operative only at a relatively higher voltage level, and are typically made from CMOS technology. When power is marginal the low-operational-voltage energy monitoring circuit reliably produces one or more status signals well before the other, higher-operational-voltage, circuits even commence to operate. Conversely to its graceful energization, the electronic device degrades and de-energizes gracefully and progressively, in stages. In particular, a microprocessor-based irrigation controller closes all controlled irrigation valves before, in the face of declining energy, reverting first to housekeeping at minimal energy consumption, and then, with further diminishing power, to dormancy. The controller will re-assume full operability should energy balances ever again so permit.

摘要翻译： 电子设备，例如灌溉控制器，从能量源（例如来自入射光）积聚能量，以便随着时间的推移从正在受控的，优雅的和不可操作的非操作的动力状态中进行， 有序的方式。 该装置如此进展到可操作性，不管它应该是不时地，有时是完全没有能量，而不管它可能仅在几天，几周和更长的时间段内累积能量，但是非常缓慢。 器件的功率监视器电路由电路技术制成，该电路技术通常来自BICMOS技术在相对较低的电压电平下可靠地工作，而其它器件电路仅在相对较高的电压电平下工作，并且通常由 CMOS技术。 当功率很小时，低工作电压能量监测电路在另一个更高工作电压的电路甚至开始运行之前可靠地产生一个或多个状态信号。 与其优雅的通电相反，电子设备分阶段地逐渐降级和断电。 特别地，基于微处理器的灌溉控制器在面临能量下降之前关闭所有受控的冲洗阀，首先以最小的能量消耗回到家务管理，然后在进一步减小功率的情况下休眠。 如果能量平衡再次允许，控制器将重新承担全面的可操作性。

公开(公告)号：US07129493B2

公开(公告)日：2006-10-31

申请号：US10898640

申请日：2004-07-23

申请人： William R. Garner ,  Jonathan M. Luck

发明人： William R. Garner ,  Jonathan M. Luck

IPC分类号： G01J5/02

CPC分类号： G08B17/005 ,  A62C3/0271 ,  A62C37/40 ,  F03G6/001 ,  G01J1/0247 ,  G01J5/02 ,  G01J5/028 ,  G08B17/12 ,  G08B25/10 ,  H01L31/02

摘要： A method and apparatus for integrating photovoltaic cells into a ground plane of satellite and terrestrial antenna systems is disclosed. The system provides an increase in available surface area for power generation without increasing the overall size. In one embodiment, a substrate has both photovoltaic cells and a conductive spacer formed on one side, where the conductive spacer has a thickness substantially equal to the thickness of the photovoltaic cells. In another embodiment, an antennae element may be formed on the top side of the conductive spacer, where the photovoltaic cells form a ground plane for the antenna element.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于将光伏电池集成到卫星和地面天线系统的接地平面中的方法和装置。 该系统提供了可用的发电表面积，而不增加总体尺寸。 在一个实施例中，衬底具有形成在一侧上的光伏电池和导电间隔物，其中导电间隔物的厚度基本上等于光伏电池的厚度。 在另一个实施例中，天线元件可以形成在导电间隔物的顶侧，其中光伏电池形成天线元件的接地平面。

公开(公告)号：US5402303A

公开(公告)日：1995-03-28

申请号：US688631

申请日：1991-04-18

申请人： Jonathan M. Luck ,  Wyn Y. Nielsen

发明人： Jonathan M. Luck ,  Wyn Y. Nielsen

IPC分类号： H01H47/32 ,  H03K3/57 ,  H03K17/00 ,  H03K17/30 ,  H02M3/18

CPC分类号： H01H47/325 ,  H03K17/30 ,  H03K3/57 ,  H03K2217/0036

摘要： One or more loads, commonly solenoids, requiring a high-power drive--typically 500 ma. 7.5 v.d.c.--are selectively actuated by energy that is accumulated over time--typically over several hundred milliseconds--within associated, addressable, energy-accumulating high-power drivers. The energy accumulation is solely from micropowered signals--typically 1 ma., 4.5 v.d.c.--that are received from a control system that is itself micropowered--typically from a high-equivalent-series-resistance power source. The energy-accumulating high-power solenoid drivers (i) accumulate predetermined amounts of energy only as, when, and to such extent as is required, (ii) multiply the voltage (nominally times two) of the received micropowered signals, and (iii) shape the current waveform of the output high-power solenoid drive signals--all as desired so as to optimally both use and conserve energy. The selfsame micropowered signals normally supply several energy-accumulating solenoid drivers in electrical parallel, selectively addressing an individual one such driver. Each energy-accumulating solenoid driver is tri-stated, and neither consumes nor leaks energy save imminently upon the times of its selected actuation, and of the actuation of the load that it drives.

摘要翻译： 一个或多个负载，通常是螺线管，需要高功率驱动 - 通常为500马赫。 7.5 v.d.c.-由相关的可寻址的能量积累的大功率驱动器中的能量累积的能量选择性地启动（通常在几百毫秒内）。 能量积累仅来自微功率信号 - 通常为1马力，4.5伏直流电 - 从本身是微功率的控制系统接收，通常来自高等效串联电阻的电源。 蓄能高功率的螺线管驱动器（i）仅在所需的程度上积累预定量的能量，（ii）将所接收的微功率信号的电压（标称地为2倍）乘以（iii） ）根据需要对输出的大功率电磁驱动信号的电流波形进行整形，以便最佳地使用和节约能量。 同步的微功率信号通常以并行方式提供多个蓄能螺线管驱动器，选择性地寻址单个这样的驱动器。 每个蓄能螺线管驱动器是三态的，既不消耗也不泄漏能量，在其所选择的致动时间及其驱动的负载的致动下即将节能。

公开(公告)号：US5173855A

公开(公告)日：1992-12-22

申请号：US787738

申请日：1991-11-04

申请人： Wyn Y. Nielsen ,  Jonathan M. Luck

发明人： Wyn Y. Nielsen ,  Jonathan M. Luck

IPC分类号： A01G25/16 ,  G05B19/02 ,  G05B19/042 ,  G06F9/445

CPC分类号： G06F8/61 ,  A01G25/16 ,  G05B19/0426 ,  G05B2219/23051 ,  G05B2219/23297 ,  G05B2219/23425 ,  G05B2219/24069 ,  G05B2219/25286 ,  G05B2219/25289 ,  G05B2219/25366 ,  G05B2219/2625

摘要： Separate, but related, firmware programs for multiple microprocessor-controlled irrigation controllers that are interrelated in their control of irrigation within an irrigation system are generated off-line at a personal computer. The programs are downloaded into a transportable memory device that holds sixty-four separate programs. The memory device is transported to each irrigation controller and plugged to a digital communication channel. The device automatically identifies itself to the controller, and vice versa. The appropriate program is automatically uploaded from the device to the controller. The controller's old program and its historical irrigation record data is loaded into the device and delivered to the personal computer for validation and analysis. A wireless remote test command assembly, an extension maintenance panel, or a radio-link central module may be alternatively connected to the controller's digital communication channel. The controller is powered by the memory device during the uploading.

摘要翻译： 在个人计算机上离线生成与灌溉系统内灌溉控制相关的多个微处理器控制的灌溉控制器的单独但相关的固件程序。 这些程序被下载到一个可移植的存储设备中，该设备拥有64个独立的程序。 存储器件被输送到每个灌溉控制器并插入数字通信通道。 设备自动向控制器标识自身，反之亦然。 相应的程序将自动从设备上传到控制器。 控制器的旧程序及其历史灌溉记录数据加载到设备中并传送到个人计算机进行验证和分析。 无线远程测试命令组件，扩展维护面板或无线电链路中央模块可以可选地连接到控制器的数字通信信道。 在上传过程中，控制器由存储设备供电。